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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 12h

I only trust magicians when they're practicing within their expertise.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 13h

The important thing is that it's not FDA approved and it's recommended by a chiropractor.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 16h

Some providers have it but leave it off by default because token use within an org typically follows a power law distribution. Others just don't have it. And there are a lot of resellers who will resell a provider that does have it, but don't have it themselves.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

They've finally realized who their most reliable audience is: Retirees who see their grandkids every other Christmas.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

MIT has really lowered their standards.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

Looks like smog's back on the menu.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

You could pre-generate greebled Wang tiles, and tile those dynamically.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

Turns out cops and bootlickers don't like Flock cameras either if someone else controls them.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

Russia is maybe worse right now, but the current government is only pretending to treat them as an adversary.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 02/10/2026

The "turbo cancer" they keep claiming COVID vaccines caused isn't a thing, but they're going to inject themselves full of compounds that have only been tested in rats and make it a thing.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 01/10/2026

If the chelation craze had hit after that rather than before it, it might have done some good. The wellness grifters are now moving to research peptides, so in a few years mild lead poisoning will be the least of their problems.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 01/10/2026

I once watched a former multi-decade C++ developer suggest replacing an underperforming Python protobuf client with a Go tool, and a 20-something kid insisted on using C++ due to its "superior type system" and the disgust on his face was palpable.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

The US Government imposed export controls on Mythos and forbade them from granting access to anyone who is not a US citizen located in the US. That even applies to Australians.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

It *is* spooky season.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

They should make an upstream server that doesn't throw 503 errors.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

Jim Acosta should have when he had the chance.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

Too bad that Jim Acosta didn't when he had the chance.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

I need to up my game, because I can still see him.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

How? I'm pretty sure that turning raw beef into brisket doesn't reduce the mass by 93%.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

Sounds like business school dogma about gross margins. "We're cancelling your product and laying you off because you're slightly less profitable than the rest of the business" is a bizarrely common event.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m seeing a new allergist-immunologist and today he brought up this study about how much Astepro nasal spray, which I use daily, appears to decrease the likelihood of COVID, flu, RSV, etc. I have barely gotten a cold since I started using it but had no idea why. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Azelastine Nasal Spray for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infections

This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of azelastine as a preexposure prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

There are some indices with governance standards, but not the biggest ones.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

The "printing human bodies stuff" is way easier to believe than the idea that the propagandists for a cult of personality would betray that personality to get a good story out in the public interest. I'd love to see it happen though.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 30/09/2026

Mickey 17 asks us to suspend a lot of disbelief, and I have no problem with that for a sci-fi movie, but... (spoiler ahead)

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

My kid has zero physical textbooks and submits writing assignments via Google Classroom and somehow has a backpack just as overstuffed as I had at that age, just for the notebooks, which I bought at the smallest sizes on the teachers' supply lists. It's like Gates's Law for wide ruled paper.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

It's a popular technique for avoiding an exam you're not ready for, but September seems a bit early for that.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

A guillotine might fix me and therefore I should be allowed to purchase one with FSA funds.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 29/09/2026

After a couple of decades of wishing I had a magnet on a bendy stick whenever I dropped a screw somewhere difficult to reach, I finally remembered to buy a magnet on a bendy stick while I was at the hardware store. Please clap.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

I could have done that when I was 22 or 23. Not sure who they expect to find who has experience who wants to do that.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

Sandboxes: famously difficult to escape.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

I once got a pitch where I'd be on-call 24x365 until I helped them hire the rest of the team, because they had already launched and the developer had left.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

"Choosin' Texas" is the sort of "identity as aesthetic" kind of thing that white people who feel insufficiently represented in popular media can't get enough of, and ruined country music 25 years ago.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

To prep for job interviews I've been vibe-coding a shared reminder app, which is the sort of composition of existing ideas that AI is quite good at, but it's extremely funny watching it contemplate the possibility that someone in my household might take my medicine or brush my teeth.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 28/09/2026

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was so engrossing that it took me a while after leaving the theater to realize I had been reading subtitles rather than comprehending Mandarin the entire time.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

I just got an almost certainly fake recruiter email, and I'm extremely tempted to fuck with them, but I can't figure out what the scam is yet. Anyone know what the hot recruiter scams are these days?

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

I think someone already did a very simple version of this with dolphins.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

They should make a kind of alcohol that doesn't make you want to text people you know you shouldn't text

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

Are the weird background species in Tomorrow's Enterprise new, or did I just miss that in previous episodes?

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

He switched to old school punk and both my cats went to the door to listen, so my cats have good taste, which honestly is a bit surprising given that they're only 2 and one has butt rock vibes and the other has middle school orchestra vibes.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 26/09/2026

My taste in music has basically stagnated since becoming a parent, but my neighbor is blasting Tool on our porch and it is very clear that it has improved since college.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."

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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle

It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

My childhood dog would just sit on the "outside" button, unless we gave her a "squirrel" button.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

Apparently it's very easy to accidentally train them like that if you don't read up on it before you start.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

Also, cats are less likely to use them than dogs, and I've got a rather vocal and a rather quiet cat, so my best case scenario is probably that only the vocal one uses them.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

I was suspicious that a lot of those videos were influencer sponcon, so I went looking on forums, and it seems results are extremely inconsistent. Some pets use them a lot, some completely ignore them, and sometimes one of them will claim the buttons as territory and fight others who try to use them

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 25/09/2026

Do those pet speech buttons pay for themselves the first time they prevent an unnecessary vet trip, or do they result in more unnecessary vet trips when your pets sit on the "ouch" button by mistake?

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 24/09/2026

The monthly Pixel update includes a theme that adds clips from the Harry Potter audiobooks as sound effects, in case you were wondering if Google has learned anything about how they treat their trans staff.

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Grumpy Fish @jnsq.org · 24/09/2026

I've got a job interview in a few minutes, so I made sure to get a frozen coffee to weed them out if they're petty about things like that.

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